Indians Simulating Buffalo
Alternate Title: Indians Disguised as Buffalo
Date: 1908
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02890
Credit Line: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Dimensions: 26 15/16 x 40 1/8" (68.9 x 102 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (September 18, 1909), p. 10, color halftone.
Inscription: lc: COPYRIGHT 1908 BY P.F. COLLIER & SONS.; lr: Frederic Remington/1908
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1908lc: ["Copyright by P.F.Collier & Son"]; lr: "Frederic Remington/1908"
Provenance: (Henry Reinhardt, New York, New York); Florence Scott Libbey, Toledo, Ohio; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. St. Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis
Art Museum, March 11 - May 22, 1988; traveling exhibit: Cody, Houston,
New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill
Historical Center, June 17 - September 5, 1988; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Houston, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine
Arts, October 15, 1988 - January 8, 1989; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Cody, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York, New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, February 10 - April 16, 1989; traveling exhibit: St. Louis,
Cody, Houston.
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Texas Centennial Exposition. Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art,
June 6 - November 29, 1936.
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Frederic Remington: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum,
July 11 - August 30, 1981.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 - June 22, 1968.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Remington's West. Corning, New York: The Rockwell Museum,
September 6 - November 4, 1984.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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Card, Helen L. "Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West." Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Frederic Remington: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado:
Denver Art Museum, 1981.
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Duty, Michael. Remington's West. Corning, New York: The
Rockwell Museum, 1984.
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Remington, Frederic. Frederic Remington's Paintings. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1912, portfolio in manila envelope containing: Bringing Home the New Cook; The Quarrel; Benighted for a Dry Camp; In From the Night Herd.
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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington. An essay and catalogue to
accompany a retrospective exhibition of the work of Frederic
Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1973.
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Wildenstein & Co. How the West Was Won, Paintings,
Watercolors, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M.
Russell. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1968.
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Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. The Bison in Art. Fort
Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1977.
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Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo Museum of Art, American
Paintings. Toledo, Ohio: Toledo Museum of Art, 1979.
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Remington diary, 1908. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Remington 1909 diary. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Museum of Fine Art, Dallas. Texas Centennial Exposition.
Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art, 1936.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center. Frederic Remington: The Masterworks.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1988.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1908-1909. No. FRAM 71.837. Frederic
Remington Art Museum Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Remington, Frederic. Eight New Remington Prints. New York:
P. F. Collier & Son, 1909, portfolio: The Warrior's Last Ride};
With the Eye of the Mind}; Indians Simulating Buffalo}; On the
Southern Plains}; The Sentinel}; Pool in the Desert}; The Snow
Trail}; The Dead Men}.
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
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The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.
